This article discusses the interaction between New Zealand's marine pollution liability regime, which is divided between the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) and the Maritime Transport Act 1994 (MTA), and the country's maritime limitation of liability regime. The former encompasses both...

Tensions between Lebanon and Israel have been running high during the last months due to a legal dispute over rights to newly discovered natural oil and gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea. Formally at war for years, and without diplomatic relations, Israel and Lebanon have never agreed on a...

Canada is a party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, having ratified it in 2003. This Convention requires parties to it to make payments in respect of oil production on their continental shelves beyond 200 miles, to an international organization which is then tasked with...

This report presents the global ocean/sea ice configuration at eddy-resolving resolution developed at CMCC, and describes numerical results from the first simulation. The model configuration, based on the NEMO system, has 1/16◦ horizontal spacing at the equator and uses 98 vertical levels. So...

The word "piracy" has been applied to acts of murder, robbery, plunder, rape and other villainous deeds which have transpired throughout history. Piracy usually conjures up images of a flag with skull and crossbones and of swashbucklers, plundering ships and taking booty as prize. Traditionally,...

This article examines the international law consequences of the very different actions taken by two non-governmental organisations, the Humane Society International and the Sea Shepherd organisation, in an attempt to persuade Japan to end its scientific whaling programme in the Southern Ocean....